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The Los Angeles Times reported last night that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be pulling the plug on its renowned weekend film program, which has been running for four decades. The program, which has screened retrospectives on everyone from Cary Grant to Roman Polanski to Ernst Lubitsch,...

The Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles will celebrate the film and television work of director R.J. Cutler by presenting "R.J. Cutler on Film & Television" - which will include both retrospective screenings of select works, and an advance screening of his upcoming film "The September Issue." The ...

Outfest 2009 kicked off this weekend, beginning ten days of celebrating LGBT cinema in Los Angeles. The 27th edition of the festival brings 181 films from 25 countries - four of which were selected as Outfest's "Four In Focus," a special designation for the festival's most promising directorial debu...

The main question here: Does a filmmaker have the right, and indeed the responsibility, to tell a story as he or she sees fit, pursuing truth even when the story is not completely cut and dry? And should fellow filmmakers back a director when controversy erupts?

Using the question “What does a producer do?” as a launching point, four producers got together last week during the LA Film Festival to participate in a lunch time conversation about their work and what it took to bring their respective films to the festival.

Film Independent announced the filmmakers and film projects selected for its 7th annual Fast Track program, taking place during the Los Angeles Film Festival. Fast Track is an intensive, three-day film-financing market where participants "are connected with established financiers, production compan...